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Towers Watson builds investment team

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Towers Watson Investment has expanded its Australian investment team by four with plans to add another two within months. Former head of Mercer's New Zealand Retirement /Actuarial Consulting business, Paul Newfield is assuming the role of senior investment ...

KiwiSaver eggs more savings, but not enough

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
A survey has found far more New Zealanders are saving money for retirement but very few are using the KiwiSaver scheme to its full potential. AMP's SuperWatch survey found KiwiSaver is the preferred retirement savings option with 67 per cent of respondents ...

Asteron leaves KiwiSaver market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
Asteron is pulling out of the New Zealand KiwiSaver market. The firm is winding up its KiwiSaver Scheme at the end of May, which had more than 6,000 members with approximately $33 million in funds under management (FUM). The decision to withdraw from ...

Kiwis confused on retirement investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
A survey found more than half of New Zealanders signed up to the retirement savings product, KiwiSaver, have no idea what they're investing in. The UMR national survey found 34 per cent of New Zealanders are signed up to KiwiSaver, representing more ...

AMP posts profits, AUM falls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
AMP stayed in the black last year despite the market crisis although earnings by its wealth management arms dropped markedly after local and global markets went through the wringer. The group's Contemporary Wealth Management business, which includes ...

TOWER Investments signs UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
New Zealand based, TOWER Investments became one of the first KiwiSaver providers to sign the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). Signing the principles means TOWER Investments will integrate environmental, social and governance ...

KiwiSaver to drive fin literacy

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Gen X and Y Kiwis will be much more financially savvy than their predecessors because of the KiwiSaver scheme, predicts BT Funds Management. The New Zealand arm of BT Funds Management claims that in less than 20 years, an increasing number of young ...

NZ economy goes negative

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
Just as Australian fund managers turn their attention towards New Zealand as they try to take advantage of Kiwisaver and NZ Super, the land of the long white cloud has dipped into negative economic growth and looks set to fall into recession. "The New ...

AMP Fin Services Q1 cashflow drops $624m

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
AMP Financial Services suffered a blow to its bottom line with total net cashflows of $129 million this quarter, compared with $753 million same time last year, due to lower discretionary super contributions and the 'first quarter' season lull. Excluding ...

AMP reports bullish quarter

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
Better Super and increased planner support has helped push AMP Financial Planning to $3.5 billion in inflows for the September quarter. Retail superannuation inflows also rose 77 per cent to $1.6 billion for the quarter. The Super Consolidation Account ...